Beat You Down, He Really Wants To Beat You Down

Lol, ok, that was a bad joke. But seriously, I've been slipping! This is my first post in nearly a month. Let's see, what has happened since then? Oh, yeah. The Arizona Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 in a spectacular NFC Championship game, sending them to Super Bowl XLIII (43); their first since 1949 when they were the Chicago Cardinals. The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Baltimore Ravens 23-14 in the AFC Championship game, sending them to the Super Bowl for the second time in four years. The Steelers would defeat the Cardinals 27-23 in an excellent game that came right down to the wire as Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes made a spectacular catch in the corner of the end zone to give the Steelers the lead with 38 seconds left. Oh, and the Pro Bowl occured. The NFC All-Stars won, 30-21. Larry Fitzgerald won the MVP.

What else happened? The Grammys took place. I didn't watch them, nor do I feel like researching them to blog about them. The BET Honors took place as well. I didn't watch them shits either.

Now that we're done catching up, on to the point of this post: this whole Chris Brown thing. I'm sure everyone has heard some variation of the story, but the common denominator is the belief that Chris Brown was arrested for assaulting girlfriend Rihanna. This has been confirmed to be true, but my whole thing is, where did all this STD talk come from? I've heard he gave her an STD, then that she burnt him, and this, that, and the other.

All I know is, I get sick of people getting so bent out of shape when celebrities prove that they're human just like the rest of us. Celebrities make mistakes like the rest of us, and nothing constitutes a man hitting a woman. So sure, I feel Chris Brown was wrong for what occurred, but damn, get off his back. Sadly, men hit women every day, and if you disagree, you're in denial, and probably either getting abused or doing the abusing. This is all too reminiscent of the whole Michael Vick dogfighting thing. Once again, dogfights occur every day, but for some reason people feel that celebrities have to follow a special code of conduct that regular people don't, and when they get into trouble, they need to be disciplined more severely than they would have had they not had the celebrity status. I'm interested in seeing how many endorsements Brown will lose, and if his record sales will suffer in the aftermath of all of this.